Debian MySQL Team
Also packages MariaDB and Percona variants.
Infrastructure
Packages overview: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
General website: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL
MariaDB specific website: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/MariaDB
MariaDB upstream bugs: https://jira.mariadb.org/
MariaDB upsteam doc: https://mariadb.org/ and https://mariadb.com/kb/en/
MySQL upstream bugs: http://bugs.mysql.com/search.php
MySQL upsteam doc: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/
Alioth Project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mysql/
Mailing List Archive: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/
MySQL variants
Galera replication framework WSREP provider (also needs compatible Galera server binaries as WSREP consumer)
MySQL-wsrep is MySQL + wsrep-patches (Galera consumer)
Interacting with the team
Email contact: <pkg-mysql-maint AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>
Request tracker: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-mysql-maint%40lists.alioth.debian.org
IRC Channel: #debian-mysql on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
Get involved
Update the FAQ
Basic bug triage: merging, moreinfo and forwarded
Higher bug triage: reproducibility and patching
Applying for write access to the repository
Other stuff
Task description (outdated, needs review to match 2016 situation)
Generic TODO items across all MySQL/MariaDB/Percona in the Debian MySQL variants team:
Rules file review in London sprint 2014-12-11 suggestions:
- Review the implementation on hardening flags
- Review the creation of debian-maint-user in server postinstall file. The huge chuck of piped SQL commands is ugly.
- Re-engineer around asking the mysql root password or setting the debian-maint-user password and use passwordless access via unix socket by unix root user instead. This would be more secure - no passwords anywhere and only system root user can access those MySQL accounts
- As debhelper anyway already stops the mysqld process, we could replace the postrm stopping code with an assertion test
Packaging of MySQL and related software and cooperation with the wider community around MySQL. The immediate goals centre around the mysql-5.5 package:
Get Ubuntu and Debian versions identical or at least as close as possible.
Get the package piuparts clean
Get on top of the bugs (build install client library ubuntu delta)
Have just one mysql source package
Package the clones as well but factoring out the common work